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J. M. H. 8v U. G. S. WALTERS.

PRESS.

No. 554,847. Patented Feb. 18, 1896.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. M. H. & U. G. S. WALTERS. PRESS.

Patented Feb. 18, 1896.

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JAMES M. H. \VALTERS AND ULYSSES G. S. WVALTERS, OF POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 554,847, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed April 18, 1895. $e1ial No. 546,227. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES M. H. WV ALTERS and ULYSSES G. S. WALTERS, citizens of the United States, residing at Pottstown, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Pressing Grains, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a new and useful improvement in apparatus for pressing grains.

The invention consists in certain details of construction and mode of operation, as will be hereinafter set forth and specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, we will describe its construction and operation in detail, referring by number to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a central vertical section of the press. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a crosssection taken at the line was of Fig. 4. Fig. 4is a detail perspective showing the construction of one of the links of the carrier-chain.

Similar numbers denote like parts in all the views of the drawings.

1 represents four standards, adapted to rest upon a suitable foundation and form a supporting framework for the operating parts of the press, and connected together at their tops and bottoms by the cross-beams 2 and 3, respectively.

4 is a frame, rectangular in shape, which rests upon the cross -beams 3 between the lower portion of the uprights 1, and formed upon this frame are tracks 5, on which run the flanged wheels 6.

7 are rods, to the ends of which the Wheels 6 are secured in pairs, and these rods serve as pintles, by which the links 8 are connected to each other, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. The links 8 are formed with rectangular openings adapted to receive the tongued ends of the blocks 9, which form the belt 50, in such manner as to produce a continuous surface for the purpose presently explained.

10 and 11 are two pairs of sprocket-wheels secured upon the shafts 12 and 13, which latter are journaled in the frame 4, and around these wheels runs the endless carrier-belt 50, and the rods '7 mesh with the teeth of said sprocket-wheels so as to transmit motion to said belt. The wheels 6, as they travel with the upper side of this belt, run upon tracks 14 so as to keep said belt level and permit it to withstand downward strain without sag- 111 b 13 is a rectangular frame similar to the frame 4 and fitted to slide between the upper portions of the standards 1 and is suspended and operated by the hand-screws 16, which run in suitable nuts in the cross-beams 2 and are swiveled at 17 to the cross-bars of said frame for the purpose of raising and lowering said frame to adjust it relative to the frame 4.

18 are sprocket-wheels secured to and turning with shafts 19, and 20 is an endless belt constructed in like manner as the belt 50, and the flanged wheels 21 of this belt travel upon the tracks 22 and 23 secured to the frame 15.

The shafts 12 and 19 may be geared together in any suitable manner, so as to move in unison and cause the upper portion of the belt and the lower portion of the belt 20 to travel in the direction indicated by the arrows and at the same speed, so that material fed through the chute 24 to these surfaces of the belts will be carried forward thereby and compressed during this forward movement and finally discharged onto the chute 25. In order to facilitate the compression of material thus operated upon, the rear ends of the belts are adjusted closer to each other than the forward ends, so that during the passage of material from the front to the rear ends the pressure thereon is gradually increased and the action of the machine made very effective.

. 26 is an inclined trough, placed beneath the upper portion of the belt 50, so as to catch any water that may be extracted from the mate rial in the process of pressing and convey it to any desired location outside of the apparatus.

WVhen this press is to be used for extractmg cider from applc pomace, we prefer to cover the surfaces of the endless belts with canvas and tilt the framework sidewise, so as to convey the cider away from the apparatus without passing through the blocks and over the rods and wheels.

By the use of our improvement the grains 1 are taken directly from the mash-tub, by elevator or other means, and passed in a continuous supply through the traveling press, by which the surplus moisture is extracted.

Having thus fully described the invention, what we claim as new and useful is- 1. In an apparatus of the character described,an outer fram e, an inner frame,screws swiveled at the top of the inner frame and passing through beams in the outer frame whereby the inner frame is made vertically adjustable, a second inner frame below the, adjustable frame, transverse shafts at eachcnd of the frames, sprocket-wheels keyed to the shaft, the sprockets having recesses, a series of links with rectangular openings, blocks having ends fitting in the openings, transverse rods entering coincident openings in the 1 links and adapted to lie in the recesses of the l sprockets, flanged wheels on each end of the f rods, trucks for the wheels secured to the frames and means for driving the belts, as and 5 for the purpose described. I

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of the outer frame, an innerframc ad justable with relation to the 1 outer frame, tracks arranged 011 the inner frame, sprocket-Wheels suitably supported, shafts journaled in the frame, links having rectangular openings, blocks having ton gued ends fitting in the openings, transverse rods serving as pintles for the links and engaged by the sprockets of the wheel, and wheels socured on the ends of the rods and operating on the tracks, for the purpose described.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, an outer frame, an inner adjustable frame, tracks on the inside of the adjustable frame, shafts journaled transversely of the frame carrying sprocket-wheels,the sprockets of said wheels having semicircular recesses, a belt consistingof a series of links having rectangular openings, blocks having ends fitting in the openings, rods passing through openings in the links and forming pintles therefor, said rods entering the recesses of the sprockets and carrying end wheels which engage the track, means for feeding the grain between the belt, said belts being driven in the same direction, as and for the purposcdescribed.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our signatures in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J AMES M. II. WALTERS. ULYSSES Gr.v S. \VALTERS. "Witnesses:

HENRY S. SASSAMAN, LEVAN S. WAL'rnns. 

